- Evening News photo by TOM HAWLEY
Carlson's Kerstyn Comerzan looks to take a shot over Summit Academy in the first game of the Bill Lowery Girls Holiday Hoop Invitational at Grosse Ile High Schoo

GROSSE ILE — It’s been a rough go for the Gibraltar Carlson girls basketball team this season.

Senior Becca Browning is sidelined until Jan. 11 with a finger injury suffered during volleyball season. Junior Stephanie Gubics just had stomach surgery and is still sidelined.

But the Marauders are starting to click heading into the new year.

They jumped out to a 14-0 lead and crushed Romulus Summit Academy 50-17 Thursday night in the opening round of the Bill Lowery Girls Holiday Hoop Invitational at Grosse Ile.

Summit came in 3-2 and Carlson 3-3, but the Dragons were badly outmanned. Summit had only eight available players and used just seven. Sahdia Washington, a 4-11 junior guard, scored 14 of the Dragons’ 17 points.

Sarah Carlson led with 17 points on 7-for-11 floor shooting. Kristina Poole played her best game of the season and added 8 points and 9 rebounds. Paige Blakeslee was a monster underneath the basket with 13 rebounds. She also scored the first 6 points of the second half.

The game seemed to be over early. Sarah Carlson hit her first three shots including a pair of 3-pointers and had 8 points in the first 2:20 of the game. Summit didn’t score for the first 5 1/2 minutes and Phil Carlson took the press off early. Carlson also had the first 15 rebounds of the night.

Summit managed to cut the lead to 15-9, but the Marauders went on a 16-0 run early in the second half to pull away again.

Poole got off to a slow start this season but the senior guard is starting to hit her stride.

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